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The Old Céline Underground: A Personal Quest For the Rarest Phoebe Philo-Era Pieces On and Off the Internet
by Caroline Grosso
Like many right-out-of-school fashion assistants during the recession, I wasn't exactly running to my nearest Céline store to snap up Phoebe Philo's now-iconic Luggage bag, which debuted in 2010. Needless to say, in the past 14 months since the surprising announcement that Philo would step down from her post at Céline, I have been making up for lost time.
From that fateful day in December 2017 to Hedi Slimane's decisive debut for the label last September, all anyone could talk about was who would fill the void that Philo left behind: Who would design for the thinking woman who also wanted to feel an emotional connection to what she wore? While some argued that The Row would be the natural successor to Old Céline, as everyone was now calling it, others saw Philo's embrace of craft and texture in Jonathan Anderson's Loewe. And then there were those loyal fans, possibly still in denial, who seemed determined to carry on as if it didn't happen and continue buying up their favorite Céline pieces—only not in a gorgeous store with mixed-marble fixtures, but online or through Instagram.
As the last pieces of the Philo-esque studio collection filters out of Celine stores to make way for Slimane's designs, Philo-philes are left wondering how and where they can find the best Old Céline. Does 35-year-old former model and Céline muse Daria Werbowy have a stash somewhere of every item she has ever worn for a campaign? I like to picture her throwing open the door to her closet in the morning, pulling on a pair of striped white, blue, and green Céline pants, grabbing her orange skateboard from the 2011 Juergen Teller-shot campaign, and going off on her merry way into blissful retirement. And what about Joan Didion, she of the viral huge sunglasses ads? Or what about the 200,000-plus individuals who follow @oldceline, a Instagram account dedicated to all things Phoebe? What amazing pieces are lurking in their closets? What about Philo herself? How many of those oversized turtleneck sweaters that she wore in a now-iconic David Sims portrait does she actually own?
Joan Didion for Céline. Courtesy of the brand.
And, most importantly, how do I get my hands on a pair of beige and black Madame boots in a 37, or that Foulard collection blouse that Kanye West made famous?
Oh yes, the Kanye blouse that broke the internet. Did you forget about that one? West wore it at Coachella in 2011, and then Travis Scott appeared to wear a similar one in 2018. Well, apparently, that particular Céline piece is the most rare find today. "By far, the foulard top," exclaimed Sabrina Marshall, when I asked her which were the most difficult-to-find Old Céline ready-to-wear. Marshall is one half of the duo behind Resee, a Paris-based fashion and vintage emporium. "There was a bidding war when that one came in [to Resee]. It was a collector's piece—Japan, America, everyone went nuts."
2011 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival – Day 3. Getty Images.
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And they went nuts simply because pieces like that do not show up in the secondhand market as often as one would imagine. According to Charles Gorra, the CEO of Rebag, a secondhand marketplace for luxury bags, "Ninety percent of old Céline owners are not necessarily looking to sell their Céline." And Sasha Skoda, The Real Real's director of women's, echoed his sentiment. There is "less Céline product out in the market than ever before," she said, noting, "most Céline sells in the first 30 days on The Real Real."
In a move to up my chances of securing the iconic pieces I have had my eye on, I decided to sign up for The Real Real's First Look Members Club. The program is designed to give "collectors" 24 hours advance notice of all new sales on the site. Skoda said that this was potentially the best way for me to try and get my hands on pieces like 2011's scarf or foulard print collection, 2014's paint splatter prints, and 2017's Yves Klein dresses, all of which tend to sell the moment they hit the site—which they rarely do. While I managed to come across some great knitwear, which The Real Real says is the bread and butter of their Old Céline sales, as well as the box bag (a veritable It bag), no rare ready-to-wear pieces were to be found in a size small in time to wear for Fashion Week. Much like Instagram, The Real Real's app was addicting for this fashion fan, and the despair I felt when one of my favorite items sold to someone else was becoming a little too real. It was time to try another tactic.
I had the pleasure of meeting Marie Blanchet a couple of years ago in Paris, when she was the head of vintage at Vestiaire Collective, France's answer to The Real Real. We hit it off right away, and after observing all of the iconic Yves Saint Laurent in her wardrobe, I knew she'd be of help in my quest for Old Céline. My timing couldn't have been better. Blanchet had just moved to London to become the CEO of William Vintage, the iconic vintage retailer that has been dressing Meghan Markle of late, and she had been thinking a lot about how individuals collect more recent labels and collections in addition to vintage.
"When we source vintage, we feel a bit like treasure hunters," Blanchet explained. "But most often, it's very organic. Owners get in touch with us when they are ready to part ways with their vintage pieces. They trust that their pieces will be treated with respect and love and will eventually be sold to a person who shares that same respect and passion." The team at Resee also believe that it is the quality-of-afterlife factor that compels women to come to them with their most coveted items. "People will only give us a couple pieces the first time; it's the second time that we'll buy everything," Marshall explained.
Of course, money is an object, too. "Parting ways with these pieces can result in a very good profit, with the re-sell on some of these pieces quite high due to both the rarity and demand on them," said Australia-based personal shopper Gab Waller. Waller rather famously came to the rescue of supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who had announced via Instagram Stories that she was desperately searching for a Philo-era wool coat with the food names like "macaroon" printed on it. A fashion blogger who saw Huntington-Whiteley's Stories then tipped the supermodel off to Waller. Within weeks, Huntington-Whiteley had posted a snap of herself wearing the gray wool coat to Instagram. Randomly enough, Hailey Beiber decided she wanted that same Old Céline coat, too. Again, Waller came to the rescue.
CLIENT LOVE: Sourced and delivered the highly coveted Old Céline coat to @haileybieber. This was a sourcing miracle and a huge highlight for 2018. It's not too late to still stop all things Old Céline, swipe for my current 3 top picks all available now for immediate purchase (backless dress in a S, high boots in a 41, and all leather Madame boots Size 40 and 41). Please DM all requests x . . . #personalshopper #luxurypersonalshopper #oldceline #phoebephilo #luxurydesigner #fashionsourcing #sourcedbygw
A post shared by GABRIEL WALLER (@gabwallerdotcom) on Mar 2, 2019 at 11:16pm PST
At this point, I knew that if I wanted to stock my closet full with great Old Céline classics, The Real Real would do the job. But if I needed something rare, it might be worth enlisting a personal shopper. Sourcing via Instagram can be helpful, but at the end of the day, it can't replace an expert. "Call me your very own little secret fashion weapon," Waller said to me. "I will do absolutely everything I can to hunt it down for you through my various sources," she added, though much to my chagrin the Madame boots are "in extremely high demand," which explained why one of the few pairs I could find for sale were going for well over $2,000 on eBay. "It's a magical and inexplicable process how we end up finding some of the most extraordinary pieces in places you'd never expect," Blanchet said, adding that William Vintage indeed does work with clients to track down specific looks.
Much like investigative journalists, however, personal shoppers tend to protect their sources. Which means we may never find out exactly where the best Old Céline pieces come from. Though I did wonder: Do Frenchwomen, just by nature of being, you know, French, have the most Céline in their closets?
"I wouldn't say that is the case," said Waller. "I have clients from all over the world with an incredible Old Céline closet. A special mention would have to go to a Hong Kong woman who I've found have some incredibly rare and beautiful pieces," she noted. After an initial trip there in January, Waller realized that Philo's influence had permeated that region, too, with many counting themselves die-hard devotees. Rebag's Gorra also hinted at the importance of women in Asia when it comes to digging out the most rare Céline pieces. As the company plans to open a whopping 30 stores in the next few years, there's "opportunity in sourcing international."
For her part, Blanchet still thinks Europeans might have the best Old Céline in their closets. "I've found that a lot of frequent and most faithful buyers of Céline by Phoebe Philo come from Germany," she explained. "Out of all the beautiful, inspiring, and chic women I've gotten the pleasure to meet over the years, some of those who have epitomized Céline by Phoebe Philo the most are German and Dutch."
Though, if the Dutch are anything like Copenhagen street style star Pernille Teisbaek, there are most certainly some epic finds in their closets. Indeed, it was through a contact in Denmark where Waller found the iconic coat for Huntington-Whiteley.
Flashback to Good "old É" Days💔
A post shared by Pernille Teisbaek (@pernilleteisbaek) on Jan 13, 2019 at 10:29am PST
But perhaps it's not only Old Céline that we're all after?
"You know what's funny," said Sofia Bernadin, Marshall's partner at Resee. "Now, [Phoebe Philo's] time at Chloé is also really making a big comeback. So we've gotten a lot of great pieces from when she designed at Chloé, and we're putting together a story on that at Resee."
Old Chloé is not the only resurrection ripple-effect caused by Philo's exit from the fashion sphere. As fashion critics rally around Daniel Lee, a former director of ready-to-wear design under Philo at Céline, who is now at the helm of Bottega Veneta and who is ushering in a new code at the house, can one expect a resurrection of Old Bottega? The young designer is, after all, creating covetable accessories like his oversized Intrecciato bags. "Vintage Bottega bags are coming back into style," said Skoda, who noted that there was already an uptick in both searches and sales—and therefore value—on The Real Real. Over at Rebag, those wishing to get ahead of the Intrecciato trend are already looking back to the O.G. versions as the next It bag to collect, especially the hobo.
But back to Céline. If there was one major takeaway from Hedi Slimane's sophomore runway show earlier this week in Paris, it is that New Celine is really the old Céline. The Old Old Céline that is, the pre-Phoebe Philo, pre-Michael Kors Céline, when the label was just very nice clothes worn by the bourgeoisie of Paris. If there's one truth in fashion, it's that what goes around is sure to come back around again. I guess we'll have to wait and see if everyone will be flocking to carry a vintage Céline American Sulky bag, or if they'll be marching straight to their nearest Celine store, just like they used to, excited to snap up Slimane's Celine, sans accent. I certainly will be.
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The Philips LFH7430 SpeechExec app is designed to fit perfectly into the Philips SpeechExec Enterprise suite. Recording, editing, and sending dictation files from your iPhone offers mobile flexibility and reduces document turnaround times.
Productivity on the go with a professional dictation solution.
The Philips LFH7430 Digital Dictation App for iPhone is designed to fit perfectly into the Philips SpeechExec Enterprise suite. Recording, editing, and sending dictation files from your iPhone with the Philips dictation app offers mobile flexibility and reduces document turnaround times.
The display shows all recording functions, and the main interface allows the user to record and navigate within recordings. Additionally, users can prioritize a recording, define a keyword and/or a category, or simply edit the recording name. The clear user interface makes it fast and easy to find what you're looking for. It guides you through the dictation and upload process quickly and intuitively.
To avoid people accidentally getting access to your audio files, the highly secure Philips Recorder for Smartphones optionally offers the capability to encrypt dictation files. In addition, the voice dictation app for iPhone can be locked via PIN code.
Shake, record, send: the Express Mode is quick and easy. Shake to record, and shake again to save your recording or have it sent immediately to your SpeechExec Mobile server (only available for iPhone).
The Philips SpeechLive dictation app takes dictation workflow to the cloud, with all its great benefits. Dictations can be safely uploaded and downloaded from anywhere in the world. End-to-end double encryption protects recordings from unauthorized access. SpeechLive works seamlessly with all Philips input devices, connects with SpeechExec software and adapts to your company's working structure.
The Philips Recorder for Smartphones takes full advantage of the touch interface. It offers editing functions such as insert, overwrite, and append for professional recording control.
Attach a photo directly to your dictations to increase the accuracy and validity of your dictation files. Attached photos are directly tied to your recordings.
With the status bar you always know the exact connection status to your cloud storage. Your dictation and system status are now visible on one screen. Find dictations in your cloud storage within seconds. Simply filter dictations according to their status progress (pending, progress, finished) and enhance your efficiency.
The Philips Recorder for Smartphones turns your smartphone into a wireless digital dictation recorder. Record dictation files at home, in the office, on a plane, or anywhere you need to record and send voice files. The ability to send dictation files through wireless transfer decreases turnaround time and dramatically increases personal productivity.
With the Philips Recorder for Smartphones you can send recordings to your SpeechExec solution via email, FTP, the Philips SpeechLive dictation app, or directly to your company network. The audio files will automatically appear in your transcribe to-do list.
The SpeechExec dictation recorder routes files to their defined target destinations using either SpeechExec Mobile Server, BlackBerry Enterprise Server or SpeechLive. Customers have the choice of either hosting their own Server or take advantage of the Philips SpeechExec Dictation Hub service which provides a SpeechExec Mobile Server hosted by Philips. By supporting up to five Mobile Server settings at different locations, the Philips Recorder for Smartphones guarantees highest flexibilty when dictating in different environments is a must. With the Philips SpeechLive dictation app for iPhone, dictation files can be sent from anywhere in the world, independent of where you are, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Price is for 1 year annual subscription for Philips LFH7430 SpeechExec App and SpeechExec Enterprise service.


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Mr. L. Neil Smith
Funeral Service for Mr. L. Neil Smith, 90 of Alexander City, Alabama was held on Friday, January 7, 2022, at Radney Funeral Home. Dr. Skip Lowery officiated. The family had visitation on Friday, January 7 from 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. with the funeral services following at 11:00 a.m. Immediately following the funeral there was a graveside service at Hillview Memorial Park.
Mr. Smith passed away peacefully with family by his side on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was born on April 9, 1931, in Alicia, Arkansas to Thomas Arthur Smith and Sarah Abigail (Watts) Smith. He graduated from Clover Bend High School in 1948 as valedictorian and went on to graduate from Arkansas State University in 1953. Neil served in the United States Army for five years as an Army aviator reaching the rank of 1st Lt. while stationed in Germany. When he returned to the States, Mr. Smith began his career in data processing in Pensacola, Florida and then in Greenville and Rock Hill, South Carolina before moving his family to Alexander City, Alabama. He worked for Russell Corporation for over 25 years and was telecommunications manager for many of those years. Neil was also involved in the Southeastern Telecommunication Association (SETA) for years and served as President and CEO.
Mr. Smith was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church of Alexander City and served as Deacon for many years. He also enjoyed singing in the choir and teaching Sunday School. He was a devoted and loving son, brother, husband, father, uncle, and grandfather. He loved Auburn football, golfing, and spending time outdoors but mostly enjoyed time with his family and all of his grandchildren who affectionately called him "Geedo."
He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Jewel Cauley Smith of Alexander City, Alabama; son, Randy Smith (Jacqui) of Charleston, South Carolina; daughter, Angie Webster (Jimmy) of Birmingham, Alabama; and son, David Smith (Tonja) of Spartanburg, South Carolina; grandchildren, Brittany Smith of Woodstock, Georgia; Sarah Abigail Smith of Atlanta, Georgia; Zack Smith (Jessica) of Phoenix, Arizona; Drew Webster of Atlanta, Georgia; Cole and Laurel Smith of Spartanburg, South Carolina; Mayfield Reynolds (Holli) of Raleigh, North Carolina; Forest Reynolds (Kacey) of Spartanburg, South Carolina; great granddaughter, Everett Reese Reynolds of Raleigh, North Carolina; and many nieces and nephews.
The family requests memorial contributions be made to the American Heart Association.
Memorial messages may be sent to the family at www.radneyfuneralhome.com.
Radney Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
To plant a tree in memory of L. Smith as a living tribute, please visit Tribute Store.
L. Neil Smith
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package org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel;

import java.io.IOException;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

import org.apache.poi.xwpf.XWPFTestDataSamples;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.model.XWPFHeaderFooterPolicy;
import org.openxmlformats.schemas.wordprocessingml.x2006.main.CTP;
import org.openxmlformats.schemas.wordprocessingml.x2006.main.CTR;
import org.openxmlformats.schemas.wordprocessingml.x2006.main.CTText;

public final class TestXWPFHeader extends TestCase {

	public void testSimpleHeader() {
		XWPFDocument sampleDoc = XWPFTestDataSamples.openSampleDocument("headerFooter.docx");

		XWPFHeaderFooterPolicy policy = sampleDoc.getHeaderFooterPolicy();

		XWPFHeader header = policy.getDefaultHeader();
		XWPFFooter footer = policy.getDefaultFooter();
		assertNotNull(header);
		assertNotNull(footer);

		// TODO verify if the following is correct
		assertNull(header.toString());

	}

	public void testSetHeader() throws IOException {
		XWPFDocument sampleDoc = XWPFTestDataSamples.openSampleDocument("SampleDoc.docx");
		// no header is set (yet)
		XWPFHeaderFooterPolicy policy = sampleDoc.getHeaderFooterPolicy();
		assertNull(policy.getDefaultHeader());
		assertNull(policy.getFirstPageHeader());
		assertNull(policy.getDefaultFooter());

		CTP ctP1 = CTP.Factory.newInstance();
		CTR ctR1 = ctP1.addNewR();
		CTText t = ctR1.addNewT();
		t.setStringValue("Paragraph in header");

		CTP ctP2 = CTP.Factory.newInstance();
		CTR ctR2 = ctP2.addNewR();
		CTText t2 = ctR2.addNewT();
		t2.setStringValue("Second paragraph.. for footer");

		XWPFParagraph p1 = new XWPFParagraph(ctP1);
		XWPFParagraph[] pars = new XWPFParagraph[1];
		pars[0] = p1;

		XWPFParagraph p2 = new XWPFParagraph(ctP2);
		XWPFParagraph[] pars2 = new XWPFParagraph[1];
		pars2[0] = p2;

		// set a default header and test it is not null
		policy.createHeader(policy.DEFAULT, pars);
		policy.createHeader(policy.FIRST);
		policy.createFooter(policy.DEFAULT, pars2);

		assertNotNull(policy.getDefaultHeader());
		assertNotNull(policy.getFirstPageHeader());
		assertNotNull(policy.getDefaultFooter());
	}

	public void testSetWatermark() {
		XWPFDocument sampleDoc = XWPFTestDataSamples.openSampleDocument("SampleDoc.docx");
		// no header is set (yet)
		XWPFHeaderFooterPolicy policy = sampleDoc.getHeaderFooterPolicy();
		assertNull(policy.getDefaultHeader());
		assertNull(policy.getFirstPageHeader());
		assertNull(policy.getDefaultFooter());

		policy.createWatermark("DRAFT");

		assertNotNull(policy.getDefaultHeader());
		assertNotNull(policy.getFirstPageHeader());
		assertNotNull(policy.getEvenPageHeader());
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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UCLA student launches hand-drawn sticker pack on App Store
By Andrew Warner
Arts, Lifestyle
Third-year design media arts student Maddy Pease designed her first sticker pack this summer using Crayola markers and Adobe Photoshop. The iOS sticker pack is inspired by inside jokes and pet names between her and her friends, with bright colors and hand drawn animations. (Andrew Arifin/Daily Bruin)
Maddy Pease spent her summer poolside with a Crayola marker in hand.
While the third-year design media arts student worked at a swim and tennis club, she used markers and paper lying around the facility to design letters, stars and hearts.
Pease's poolside drawings became the foundations of her first sticker pack for iOS. She turned her sketches into animated designs, which Apple device owners have downloaded from the App Store more than 2,000 times. Pease said creating the free sticker pack – titled "Maddy's First Sticker Pack" on the App Store – allowed her to experiment with color and software.
Sticker packs are app extensions which consist of small images – or stickers – that can be added to messages sent through iMessage on a device running iOS 10 or later. Pease said she first discovered sticker packs last spring, but was dismayed with the limited selection available on the App Store. One of the sticker packs Pease first downloaded consisted of images ofcats doing silly things.
"It's like 'Okay, this is cool … but it's not personal to me and I never would use it as much as I wanted to,'" she said.
Pease said she wanted to make a sticker pack she could use regularly with her friends, so her sticker pack consists of phrases Pease and her friend Kathryn Vaccaro use together in everyday conversation. The stickers feature pet names and inside jokes between the two, such as a sticker with the phrase "baby boo," written in a bright, pear-green color. The pair uses the phrase as a nickname for each other.
"These things I say literally on the daily, and that was the whole point," Pease said. "All of these (stickers) have stories behind them."
Pease and her friends constantly send each other stickers from the pack, and Vaccaro said she uses Pease's sticker pack regularly, even with people who don't know Pease personally.
Pease began developing her sticker pack by sketching designs with the arts and crafts supplies at her work. She then took pictures of them with her phone and used Adobe Photoshop to color and animate them.
"It's all hand-drawn, which is what I like and I use that in all of my work," she said. "I think hand-drawn typology has a very organic and beautiful feel to it – something that you can't get when you type or with most typefaces."
Pease said she also experimented with different color combinations, discovering new color schemes she now uses in her artwork, including a hot-pink and pear-green combo present throughout the sticker pack that she later used while designing her personal resume.
Pease said although the design process went smoothly, the technological side of creating the sticker pack was a bit more difficult. Pease used online tutorials to learn the basics of Xcode, a software used to develop apps and app extensions.
She also consulted her sister's friend Ryan McLeod, an independent app designer and developer, who helped her program the pack to work properly on iMessage and figure out the logistics of getting the sticker pack into the App Store. McLeod said sticker packs can be a good starting point for people interested in learning how to get an app up and running on the App Store.
Pease said waiting for Apple to approve the sticker pack took a while, but her pack passed the review process – in which Apple checks for privacy issues and other malfunctions – every step of the way.
She added she enjoyed learning the new programming and animating skills necessary to create the pack, as well as the process behind developing apps and app extensions.
"As often as I can, I'm always trying to learn something new that not a lot of people know how to do, just because I find those things most fascinating," Pease said.
Andrew Warner |
Quad editor
Warner is the editor of the Quad. He was previously the assistant editor for the Music | Arts beat of Arts during the 2017-2018 school year and an Arts reporter during the 2016-2017 school year.


Novatek and Total consider the possibility of implementation of oil and gas projects in Uzbekistan, the press service of Uzbekneftegaz reports. As the company notes, now in oil and gas branch of Uzbekistan there are large-scale transformations. At the same time the particular emphasis is placed on expansion of exploration works in territories of the republic with use of the advanced methods of search of hydrocarbons and arrangements of oil and gas fields. "Negotiations have taken place and. about the chairman of the board (Uzbekneftegaz. – RNS) Ashrafkhanov's Fringe with representatives of the Total E&P Activites Petrolieres companies (France) and PJSC Novatek (Russia). . During negotiations with representatives Total E&P Activites Petrolieres and Novatek are in details discussed possibilities of multilateral partnership in this direction", - it is said in the statement. The Uzbek company specifies that Total and Novatek have expressed interest in obtaining information on the current legislation in the investment sphere of Uzbekistan, studying of geologic-geophysical data and the available infrastructure near investment blocks for development of the further action plan.


The currency pair GBP / USD on the 4-hour chart rebounded from the Fibo level of 76.4% - 1.3094 and a slight drop after it, after which the fixation above the correction level of 76.4%. As a result, on January 25, the growth process can be continued in the direction of the next correction level of 100.0% - 1.3300. Closing the rate of the pair below the Fibo level of 76.4% mono will be interpreted as a reversal in favor of the US dollar and expect a slight fall in the direction of the correctional level of 61.8% - 1.2970.
On the hourly chart, the currency pair continues the growth process in the direction of the correction level of 200.0% - 1.3192. Today bearish divergence is brewing at the CCI indicator. The education will allow traders to expect a reversal in favor of the American dollar and a slight drop in the direction of the Fibo level of 161.8% - 1.3049. Rebound quotes from the level of 200.0% will similarly work in favor of the beginning of the fall of the pair. Closing above the level of 200.0% will increase the chances of continued growth in the direction of the next correction level of 261.8% - 1.3418.
Purchases of the GBP / USD currency pair can be made now with a target of 1.3192 and a Stop Loss order below the level of 76.4% since the pair completed the closure above the level of 1.3094 (hourly chart) and hold them until a bearish divergence is formed.
Sales of the GBP / USD currency pair can be made with the target of 1.3049 and a Stop Loss order above the level of 200.0% if the pair bounces off the level of 1.3392 (hourly chart), especially in conjunction with the bearish divergence.


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072419: JOHANN CHRISTOPH ARNOLD - Why Forgive?
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063283: DENNIS ARUNDEL - The Story of Sadler's Wells 1683 - 1964.
096324: MICHAEL ASHER - The Regiment. The Real Story of the SAS. The First Fifty Years.
069361: S. J. ASHER - Water Supply and Main Drainage.
052489: MAURICE ASHLEY - England in the Seventeenth Century (1603-1714). 6.
062419: MAURICE ASHLEY - The House of Stuart. Its Rise and Fall.
050644: VARIOUS. EDITED BY MIKE ASHLEY - Quest for the Holy Grail. The Ultimate Quest From the Age of Arthurian Legend.
099175: MAURICE ASHLEY - Great Britain to 1688. A Modern History.
052487: MAURICE ASHLEY - England in the Seventeenth Century (1603-1714). 6.
054502: ISAAC ASIMOV - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Vol 6. No. 4.
056721: DON ASLETT - Is There Life after Housework?
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080315: AILEEN MARRON IN ASSOCIATION WITH HALAMWA HENNA - Celtic Body Art. Create Your Own Temporary Tattoos. Step-By-Step Instructions. Original Resuable Transfers. Ideas For Over 30 Designas.
095183: THE COPPER DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION - Copper in Instrumentation. C.D.A. Publication No. 48.
068983: J. K. ASTEPHEN - Quo Musa Tendis?
066926: CAPTAIN MARION ATEN AND ARTHUR ORRMONT - Last Train Over Rostov Bridge.
039318: ATKINS, ROBERT C. - Dr. Atkins' New Diet Cookbook.
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072824: J. W. H. ATKINS - English Literary Criticism: The Renascence.
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South African maths educator and Wits professor Jill Adler has been recognised by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) with two distinct honours – the position of president and the prestigious Hans Freduenthal medal for research.
The ICMI elected Prof. Adler, a National Research Foundation (NRF) A-rated scientist, to steer this influential body founded in 1908. The announcement was made at the annual general meeting in Hamburg, Germany, where the 13th International Congress on Mathematics Education took place from 24 to 31 July 2016.
Prof. Adler is the first African to lead the ICMI and she will serve in this position until 2020. She succeeds Ferdinando Arzarello from Italy.
Furthermore, the ICMI has awarded Prof. Adler the Hans Freudenthal Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics education. The award recognises a major cumulative programme of research and is named after the eighth president of ICMI (1967-1970).
The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) vice-chancellor and principal professor Adam Habib said that Wits university is extremely proud of the achievement of Prof. Adler in the important field of maths education. This is a significant milestone for South Africa and the continent.
Prof. Adler is a Wits School of Education Academic and has received numerous accolades for her work, starting with the 1990s ground-breaking and socio-culturally relevant research on the inherent dilemmas of teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms. She has spearheaded several large-scale teacher development projects, most recently (and current) the Wits Maths Connect Secondary project, which began in 2010. This project aims, through professional development with teachers, to improve mathematics teaching practice at the secondary level and so enable more learners from disadvantaged communities to qualify for mathematics-related courses in university.
A scholar of impact, Prof. Adler's book, entitled "Teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms", was instrumental in leading research internationally in the field. Her more recent work on mathematics teacher education has been published in French and Portuguese. She has made an enormous contribution to research capacity development working with research teams and graduate students, particularly in southern Africa.
Prof. Adler holds the SARCHI Chair of Mathematics Education in the Wits School of Education. She made history as the first educator to be awarded an A-rating by the NRF; A-ratings normally being awarded to academics from science disciplines. Prof. Adler is also the recipient of the 2012 prestigious gold medal for science in the service of society awarded by the Academy of Science of South Africa.


If your child went missing, would you ever stop looking?  For Detective Curtis Walker, he has left everything behind to continue the search for his only son, Josh.  During his quest, he was recruited to join a secret team that seeks out missing children throughout the country.  Using unofficial methods, the team operates behind a veil of anonymity and tightropes the lines of the legal system to bring back the lost.
Hoping to one day find his son, he faces a darkness like no other that has enveloped him and sent him into a downward spiral of self-destruction.  In their search for the missing, the team crosses paths with dangerous human traffickers and the encounter turns deadly, potentially leaving the team exposed, and attracts the attention of the police and an investigative journalist with a vendetta. With chaos ensuing, a lead comes in on his son's disappearance and Curtis drops everything to pick up the trail on who kidnapped his son.  Curtis will stop at nothing to find him and the reasoning behind his son's disappearance. Completely lost in the darkness, he must unravel a conspiracy that runs deep and hits too close to home.


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Morning Ethics Warm-Up, 7/10/2019: The All-Star Game, The National Anthem, Quotas, And Secretary Acosta
July 10, 2019 / Jack Marshall	/ 29 Comments
1. All-Star Game ethics reflections (with a dash of women's soccer):
Competence. Can someone tell me how many different keys MAX wandered into while trying to sing the National Anthem at the MLB All-Star game last night? He was flat, he was sharp, he fluctuated mid-phrase. My rule is that I don't care to hear a singer's self-indulgent riffs at the end of the anthem if he couldn't sing the real notes accurately earlier. That was awful. I know: it's a tough song to sing on pitch without accompaniment, but these people are supposed to be professionals, and that was an amateurish, sloppy job.Incredibly, MAX has performed the Star-Spangles Banner at other sporting events.
Somebody tell him.
A saving grace: at least he remembered all the words (more or less) and didn't kneel.
[ Speaking of kneeling: Women's soccer team captain Megan Rapinoe "explained" her disrespecting the National Anthem (in defiance of her own team's rules) while representing the nation abroad, telling Anderson Cooper last night (of course Anderson had neither the wit nor integrity to challenge her nonsense,
"I think that protest is not comfortable ever. It's going to force people to look inward and question everything they thought that they knew….taking care of others, standing up for yourself and other people if they don't have the ability to do so, is very uniquely American…I don't think anybody can deny the horrors of racism and Jim Crow and mass incarceration and what's happening on the southern border and gay rights and women's rights."
This is a sub-breed of Authentic Frontier Gibberish, the increasingly common species called the Self-Righteous Virtue-Signaling Authentic Frontier Gibberish, or "Kaepernick-speak," SRVSAFG for short.. If an athlete hates the country because of its past mistakes more than he or she is proud of the country because of what it stands for, aspires to, and has accomplished, then it is hypocritical to play for a national team. "What's happening" on the Southern border is an under-funded law enforcement and security agency doing the best it can to handle a flood of deliberate law-breakers who have chosen to endanger their own children. "What's happening" in gay rights is that they are stronger now than they were during the first term of the previous administration. "What's happening" in women's rights is a healthy national debate over whether those rights should include an upon-ended right to end the life of another human being—none of which has anything to do with soccer.
But I digress–we were talking about an American sport, baseball…
Integrity. Fox's baseball broadcasting is marginally better than ESPN's but only because Fox doesn't include a sociopathic steroid cheat like Alex Rodriguez on its broadcast team. However, the devise of having live interviews with the players on the field during the game is offensive and insulting. MLB is foolish to allow it.
2. Oh for God's sake...In her review of "Dog Man: The Musical," New York Times reviewer Laurie Graeber writes, "[M]y only quibble is the same one I have with the novel: All the really interesting characters are male." Okay, it's only a quibble, but it's an offensive and biased quibble, and since her editor–if the Times still uses editors; I see no sign of them of late—didn't have the sense to slap her down, it's up to the rest of us. What does she want, EEOC quotas in every story now? Yes, that's exactly what she wants, and the idea is creatively stultifying. This quibble leads to other similar quibbles, and the next thing you know, a production of "Twelve Angry Men" or "That Championship Season" or "The Fantastiks" will be labelled racist, sexist, homophobic or "ablist" because it does't perfectly balance its casting with an equal number of men, women, blacks, Asians, Hispanic, gay, transgender, non-binary, "differently-abled" characters. If there aren't enough characters to get them all in, then eliminate the white males.
Graeber's "quibble" is based on tribalism and bigotry, and she should not be allowed to get away with it without a fight.
3. Apparently Labor Secretary Acosta is resigning today. GOOD. Ethics Alarms covered the reasons this is necessary and now long-past due in a November 2018 post about the revelations involving Jeffrey Epstein's unconscionable plea deal. I wrote then..
I do not see how Acosta can remain as Secretary of Labor following these revelations, incomplete as they are. I don't see how we can trust his judgment, and even if, somehow, he could justify the deal with Epstein on legal, technical or pragmatic grounds, I doubt that the general public would be reassured. He should resign.
Yet it took eight more months and a new set of charges against Epstein for President Trump, or Acosta to accept the obvious and to do the right thing. There's no excuse for this.
Ethics Hero: Montana Firefighter Presley Pritchard
July 6, 2019 July 6, 2019 / Jack Marshall	/ 12 Comments
This is how female empowerment is supposed to work.
Presley Pritchard was a paramedic who aspired to be a firefighter. She was told, however, that at 120 pounds (that's the "before" photo on the left above) she was too small and weak for the physically demanding job. Did she sue? Did she take advantage of reduced strength and fitness qualifications to get what she wanted anyway? Did she try to find a firefighting outfit that had a "diversity" quota to meet? Did she give up? Did she decide that she treasured her Size 2 wardrobe more than her ambition?
No, what Presley Pritchard did was begin a long, tough training regimen involving weight training and power-lifting along with a muscle-building diet and increased caloric intake. She raised her body weight by 30%, and aced the firefighter fitness requirements, allowing her to join Evergreen Fire Rescue in Flathead County, Montana without any relaxed standards. She writes, Continue reading →
Not Just Justice Gorsuch, Prof. Turley: The Entire Supreme Court Is Owed An Apology.
June 25, 2019 June 25, 2019 / Jack Marshall	/ 10 Comments
In an article yesterday in The Hill, Constitutional Law expert Professional Jonathan Turley proclaims that Justice Neil Gorsuch is owed an apology by the Washington political establishment (meaning D.C. Democrats and progressives) which had labeled him a "rubber stamp" and a right wing ideologue in the course of its non-stop wailing about the loss of Obama nominee Merrick Garland, the victim of a ruthless bit of partisan maneuvering by Mitch McConnell. One would have thought that Gorsuch had conspired with "Cocaine Mitch."
Turley (who testified on Gorsuch's behalf, so his essay has more than a bit of a smug "I told you so!" ring), focuses particularly on yesterday's SCOTUS ruling in U.S. v. Davis, in which Gorsuch joined to so-called liberal wing to strike down an ambiguous law that allowed enhanced penalties for a "crime of violence." Turley was impressed that Gorsuch squared off against Supreme Court rookie Bret Kavanaugh, whose dissent seemed to be based on a version of the "Everybody does it" rationalization, arguing that the statute was used in "tens of thousands of federal prosecutions" for over 30 years and calling it "surprising" that it should suddenly be ruled unconstitutional. Continue reading →
Morning Ethics Warm-Up, 6/7/2019: The Duke's Revenge, Biden's Integrity, The VA's Incompetence, And A Teacher's Cruelty [UPDATED]
June 7, 2019 June 7, 2019 / Jack Marshall	/ 45 Comments
Last night we managed to watch both "The Longest Day" and "Saving Private Ryan," which especially amused me as I recalled the places my father shouted at the screen. Especially after "The Longest Day," the complete absence of any sense of what the D-Day invasion was about or why we were fighting at all is particularly irritating, but then that's Spielberg all over.
I also recalled the story about John Wayne's participation in "The Longest Day." (The Duke is really good in it, though if there is a star of "The Longest Day", it is Robert Mitchum as Brigadier General Norman Cota, Assistant Commander, 29th Infantry Division, the man who was also a primary hero of D-Day itself. )
You who else is surprisingly good? Paul Anka, in his small role. He was only in the movie because he wrote the title song, but the singer shows a genuine talent for projecting his character on screen.
[Correction note: I originally wrote, "As far as I can determine, it was Anka's only film appearance." Wrong, Ethics Breath! Reader VinnyMick points out that Anka has several other, less successful, screen appearances. I regret the error.]
This was a passionate, emotion-and-patriotism- driven project by Darryl F. Zanuck, and he was betting everything on its success: the studio, his personal finances, his love life (Zanuck's girlfriend at the time had the only female role in the movie), everything. The producer realized that he had to have Wayne in the film for credibility, as the Duke had been the Hollywood face of the American fighting man in World War II. Wayne knew it too, but was angry with Zanuck, who had mocked Wayne's equivalent project of the heart, "The Alamo."
He refused to do the film for scale (then $25,000) like the many other Hollywood stars in the film, and insisted on receiving $250,000 as an expensive crow-eating exercise for Zanuck. (That was what Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, Red Buttons, Richard Burton, Peter Lawford, Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Wagner and Robert Ryan received combined. ) Even though the producer had Charlton Heston lined up to play Wayne's role if no deal could be struck, he agreed to the punitive fee, as well as giving Wayne special billing in the credits, an out-of-alphabetical order "and John Wayne" at the end.
Yes, that was revenge…but Zanuck didn't have to agree to it. The lesson is worth remembering: don't spite anyone gratuitously, or make an enemy casually. You never know when you might need them.
1. Biden flip-flops, but at least he flipped in an ethical direction. Joe Biden is not modelling a lot of integrity as he desperately tries to appease the radical Left in his party so they might hold their noses and vote for an old, sexual harassing white guy to run against President Trump. His latest reversal was to repudiate the Hyde Amendment, which he had once supported and indeed voted for in the Senate. That's the law that forbids any taxpayer funds from being spent to fund abortions.
The Hyde Amendment never made any sense. If abortion is a right, and it has been one for decades, then government support for access to that right ought to be no less a requirement than with any other right. The Hyde amendment stands for the proposition that if enough Americans don't agree with government policy, they should be able to withhold financial support of it. That, of course, wouldn't work as a universal principle, so the Hyde Amendment is an ethical and legal anomaly. I doubt Joe's flip-flop is one of principle rather than expediency, but it's still the right position to have.
2. Nevertheless, Joe's not going to make it. The New York Times—it wants someone else to get the nomination, so it is reporting negative things about Biden that it might bury with another candidate—revealed once again that Biden repeatedly lied about participating in 1960s civil rights marches, despite being warned by aides not to do it. Such straight-out falsehoods are debilitating for a candidate who will be claiming to be the champion to elevate the Presidency beyond the incessant petty lies of Donald Trump; this was one reason Hillary Clinton was unable to exploit candidate Trump's mendacity. She's a habitual liar too.
So is Joe. It happens when you will say anything to get elected. Continue reading →
Lunchtime Ethics Appetizer, 6/3/2019: Self-Censorship, Trump's Ridiculous Jumbo, Turley On Mueller, And A College Ranking Scandal [Updated]
Bon Appettit!
1. To self-censor or not to self-censor. Right after expressing here my dilemma about whether to risk political and partisan backlash by raising current, important and legitimate legal ethics issues from the Mueller investigation, there were a flurry of articles and podcasts about the dangers of self-censorship in a climate where Americans are being systematically intimidated from opposing the Woke Collective. This is a classic ethical dilemma, with ethical considerations like integrity, duty, citizenship, honesty and responsibility, are opposed by non-ethical considerations, like keeping one's job, paying the bills, and not being cast as a pariah in one's profession.
I was also reminded of my problem by Instapundit referencing today an old Washington Post article about Mao's mass murders. My company lost a lucrative sexual harassment training deal after two Chinese nationals (that I did npt know were in the audience) too offense at a tangential comment about Mao's exterminations dwarfing those of Hitler and Stalin (but not Darth Vader). Both contacted me and demanded apologies, claiming that it was Western propaganda and that the Great Leader had "only" executed millions out of necessity. I refused (I know I have mentioned this before here) and said I was sincerely sorry they had been subjected to cultural influences that had warped their ethics, and that if I had been aware that this was a sensitve topic to anyone in the audience, I would have omitted the reference. Having spoken the truth, however, I was not going to deny or apologize for it.
"Why didn't you just apologize?" my client asked. And I was reminded of the moment in "1776" when a royalist in the Continental Congress asks Jefferson why he called King George "a tyrant" in the Declaration. "Because he is a tyrant," Jefferson answers.
I'm an ethicist, I said. I'm not going to whitewash the massacre of 45-60 million people because someone is offended by the truth.
That was the end of that contract…
2. The President issues a Jumbo. Why does he do things like this? I have no idea. It si the political equivalent of pushing a pie into his own face. In an interview with the British tabloid, The Sun tabloid, Trump responded to a query about his reaction to Megan Markle's statement that he is a "misogynist" and her suggestion that "she'd move to Canada if you got elected; turned out she moved here." He said, "Well, a lot of people are moving here, so what can I say. No, I didn't know that she was nasty."
Of course Trump was attacked for saying that to a British newspaper—it was racist, it was an insult, the usual. Of course the President shouldn't stoop to personal swipes at anyone; on the other hand, that's what he does when he is attacked himself. "Tit for Tat" and "doing unto others as they did to you" are part of Trump's "ethics." Can't we stipulate this by now? Can't TRUMP stipulate it at this point?
Then he tweeted, "I never called Meghan Markle 'nasty.' Made up by the Fake News Media, and they got caught cold! Will @CNN, @nytimes and others apologize? Doubt it!" He did this knowing that the Sun had his statement recorded, and sure enough, the paper released the audiotape.
See, the idea behind Jimmy Durante saying "Elephant? What elephant?" when caught stealing the biggest pachyderm in the world in a musical comedy is that it's obviously desperate and ridiculous, and intended to be funny.
This is just self-destructive, disturbing, and really, really stupid.
3. Jonathan Turley on Mueller. The George Washington Law prof has consistently been a voice of reason and objectivity reagarding the Mueller investigation. He has recently written two excellent columns on Mueller's public statement, here, and here.
Greg should send them to his ex-friend.
4. Why is this more damaging to a school than, say, falsely instructing students about justice, the right to representation, and due process?
From TaxProf Blog: "University Of Oklahoma Inflated Its Alumni Giving Data For 20 Years, U.S. News Strips Its #127 Ranking"
The University of Oklahoma admitted to U.S. News that it had inflated its alumni giving data since 1999, which affects its placement in the National Universities, Best Value Schools, Top Public Schools, Best Colleges for Veterans and A-Plus Schools for B Students rankings and lists. For the 2019 Best Colleges rankings, the University of Oklahoma originally reported its two-year alumni giving rate at 14 percent. The school informed U.S. News the correct value is 9.7 percent. The average alumni giving rate has a weight of 5 percent in the Best Colleges ranking methodology.
And now,
A former OU student has filed a class action lawsuit against the University of Oklahoma as a result of the university being stripped of its U.S. News & World Report ranking. [Gretzer v. Oklahoma, No. 19-490 (W.D. OK May 28, 2019]
The lawsuit, which was filed May 28 on behalf of former OU student Elani Gretzer and all OU undergraduate students since 1999, alleges the university broke contract by providing false alumni giving data to U.S. News & World Report, inflating its ranking in U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges" ranking as a result.
The lawsuit alleges the U.S. News & World Report's ranking of the Price College of Business was a "material factor" in Gretzer's decision to enroll at OU. … The suit is also filed on behalf of an estimated minimum of 350,000 people — all OU students who have enrolled since 1999, the year in which OU has admitted it began providing false information to U.S. News & World Report.
Morgan Cloud (Emory) & George Shepherd (Emory), Law Deans In Jail, 77 Mo. L. Rev. 931 (2012):
A most unlikely collection of suspects — law schools, their deans, U.S. News & World Report and its employees — may have committed felonies by publishing false information as part of U.S. News' ranking of law schools. The possible federal felonies include mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, racketeering, and making false statements. Employees of law schools and U.S. News who committed these crimes can be punished as individuals, and under federal law the schools and U.S. News would likely be criminally liable for their agents' crimes.
Some law schools and their deans submitted false information about the schools' expenditures and their students' undergraduate grades and LSAT scores. Others submitted information that may have been literally true but was misleading. Examples include misleading statistics about recent graduates' employment rates and students' undergraduate grades and LSAT scores.
U.S. News itself may have committed mail and wire fraud. It has republished, and sold for profit, data submitted by law schools without verifying the data's accuracy, despite being aware that at least some schools were submitting false and misleading data. U.S. News refused to correct incorrect data and rankings errors and continued to sell that information even after individual schools confessed that they had submitted false information. In addition, U.S. News marketed its surveys and rankings as valid although they were riddled with fundamental methodological errors.
One question: why isn't Harvard's ranking being lowered? I suspect that it's because maleducating students and systematically undermining American values and civil rights isn't included in the criteria.
It should be.
Ethics Observations On Barack Obama's $596,000 Speaking Fee
May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019 / Jack Marshall	/ 16 Comments
A report from El Tiempo, a Colombian news outlet, states that former President Barack Obama will recieve "2 mil millones de pesos" for delivering a speech engaging in an on-stage discussion about leadership strategies at the EXMA Conference in Bogota. Obama's fee is the equivalent of $594,000 in U.S. dollars
The Colombian news website Publicmetro.co, further reports that conference attendees who want to attend the event and take a photo with Obama will pay 11 million Colombian pesos, or about $3,267.
Ethics Observations: Continue reading →
My Involuntary Evolution On "Never Apologize…It's A Sign Of Weakness!"
"Never apologize…It's a sign of weakness!" is one of John Wayne's many famous quotes from the characters he portrayed on film, though no one ever wrote a song about it like Buddy Holly did after he watched "The Searchers" and couldn't get "That'll be the day!" out of his head.
The line was given renewed life when NCIS leader Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) repeatedly cited it to his team of investigators on the apparently immortal CBS procedural "NCIS," as he taught them about life, their duties, and ethics. "Never say you're sorry…It's a sign of weakness!" is #8 (on some lists, #6) among 36 "Gibbs' Rules" that include "If it seems like someone is out to get you, they are" (#30) and "Never date a co-worker" (#14).
Once, not very long ago, I regularly referenced #8 in ethics seminars as one of Gibbs' worst rules when I discussed "Dr. Z's Rules," social scientist Philip Zimbardo's tips for girding oneself against corruption in the workplace. One of the points on that list is,
"Be willing to say "I was wrong," "I made a mistake," and "I've changed my mind." Don't fear honesty, or to accept the consequences of what is already done."
I would tell my students that Gibbs and the Duke were wrong, that apologizing for wrongdoing is a sign of strength and integrity, signalling to all that you have the courage and humility to admit when you were wrong, and to move forward.
Then came the advent of social media bullying and Twitter lynch mobs, and I saw how I had underestimated the noodle-content of the spines of politicians, celebrities, CEOs, and others… Continue reading →


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Marcos Macedo est un nageur brésilien, né le  à Natal.

Biographie
Aux Championnats du monde en petit bassin 2014, il remporte le titre sur le relais 4 × 100 m quatre nages avec César Cielo, Guilherme Guido et Felipe França Silva.

Aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2016, il est éliminé en séries du 100 mètres papillon avec le .

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Naissance en septembre 1990
Naissance à Natal (Brésil)
Nageur brésilien
Nageur de papillon
Nageur aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2016

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How to Watch For All Mankind
The period science-fiction drama, For All Mankind, is back for a third season, premiering Friday, June 10, on Apple TV+. The series chronicles an alternate history of the space race, asking what if Russia had put the first man on the moon? What if the space race continued? The show was created by Emmy Award-winner Ronald D. Moore (Outlander, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica), Matt Wolpert (Fargo), and Ben Nedivi (Fargo) and follows the lives of NASA engineers, astronauts, and their families through the 1960s and 1970s. When a Soviet cosmonaut becomes the first human on the Moon in 1969, morale is devastated. Still, soon America doubles down on its commitment to catch up, matching the Soviet Union's emphasis on diversity by training women and minorities, who were largely excluded from the initial decades of U.S. space exploration. Read on to learn more about how to watch.
When Does For All Mankind Premiere: For All Mankind season 3 premieres on Friday, June 10.
Where Can You Watch For All Mankind: For All Mankind is exclusively available on Apple TV+ (1-week-free-trial).
Where Can You Watch Seasons 1 and 2: Seasons 1 and 2 of For All Mankind is available on Apple TV+.
How to Watch Past Seasons of For All Mankind
The latest season of For All Mankind is exclusive to the Apple TV+ streaming service. (Apple TV Plus shouldn't be confused with the Apple TV streaming device.) The service costs $6.99 per month after a 7-day free trial. There is no long-term commitment, and you can cancel at any time. You may be worried if you don't have an Apple device, but fear not. The Apple TV+ app is supported on Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and iPod Touch, Samsung Smart TVs, LG Smart TVs, VIZIO Smart TVs, Sony Smart TVs, and more. For more information on this streaming service, check out our review of Apple TV+.
For All Mankind seasons 1 and 2 are also available on Apple TV+, so it's easy to catch up before starting the new season.